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• Item Number : 10671
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Europäisches Patentamt European Patent Office Office européen des brevets

Travaux Préparatoires EPC 1973

Comment:

Comment:

The collection represents purely an internal research tool for the purpose of Directorate Patent Law of the European Patent Office. No guarantee can be given for its completeness or correctness.

The documents produced before 1969 cannot be provided in English as this was not an official language in the period before that date. These documents therefore are provided in French and German.

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INTER-GOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE FOR THE SETTING UP OF A EUROPEAN SYSTEM FOR THE GRANT OF PATENTS

Luxembourg, 21 April 1971 BR/106/71

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on Article 42c

Level of fees and payments - special financial contributions

During the running-in period of the European Patent Office, its expenses should be covered by the contributions of the Contracting States in the absence of other financial resources. Article 42c gives the scales for determining these contributions in the form of two variants. Working Party IV was divided in its assessment of the relative merits of the scales proposed in the two variants (BR/57/70, page 55). The Netherlands delegation draws the attention of the Conference to the fact that for a similar purpose - covering the expenses arising in connection with PCT preparatory activities - the Executive Committee of the Paris Union drew up a scale of contributions which differs from both those contained in the variants. The "PCT" scale reflects the average of three factors: the number of domestic applications, the number of "exported" applications and the number of "imported" applications.

The Netherlands delegation considers that the "PCT" scale has the advantage of offering a system which has already been accepted by a large number of countries for reasons of fairness. These reasons are equally valid for the European Convention. The number of domestic applications reliably reflects the volume of work in each national patent office and, as the Convention will be useful in general to these

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offices (and not only as regards European applications) this number should be one of the factors taken into consideration; the number of exported applications is a relevant criterion as the Convention will facilitate the filing of patent applications abroad; and finally, the number of imported applications is also a relevant criterion as the Convention will substantially reduce the amount of work of the national patent offices on applications from abroad.

The PCT system contains two modifications. The first does not apply to the European system, as the total of the domestic, exported and imported applications exceeds the minimum of 1,000 in all the countries of the Conference. The second modification applies to the countries which do not make a complete examination of domestic applications, such as Belgium, Spain, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey. As in these countries the grant of European patents after a preliminary examination concerns only the public and the courts, and not the patent offices, it seems reasonable that the number of imported applications should be reduced by half.

As a third variant of Article 42c, under which the PCT scale would be accepted, the Netherlands delegation proposes the following text:

(3) 3rd variant

The amounts of the special financial contributions shall be determined in respect of each Contracting State on the basis of a scale of contributions directly proportional to the total of the numbers of patent applications in the three following categories filed in the last

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year but one prior to the date of entry into force of this Convention:

(a) number of applications filed with the national patent office of each Contracting State; (b) number of applications filed abroad by the residents of each Contracting State (exported applications); (c) number of applications received from abroad by the national office of each Contracting State (imported applications).

However, for the Contracting States which do not make a complete examination of domestic applications, the number of imported applications shall be reduced by half".

A calculation of the rates of contribution under the PCT method is attached (Annex I), as is a comparative table of the systems contained in the two variants of Article 42c and of the PCT system.

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Calculation of the rates of contribution using the PCT method (BIRPI statistics for 1968)
Contracting States	A Number of domestic applications	B Number of "exported" applications	C Number of "imported" applications	Total of the numbers under A, B and C	Percentage
Federal Republic of Germany	65.422	71.445	31.417	168.284	22,99
United Kingdom	61.995	37.846	35.284	135.125	18,46
France	53.656	27.490	36.095	117.241	16,01
Italy	31.756	10.994	24.152/2	54.826	7,49
Switzerland	19.537	23.801	13.609/2	50.143	6,85
Netherlands	18.897	12.836	16.420	48.153	6,57
Sweden	18.080	10.217	13.338	41.635	5,68
Belgium	17.534	5.260	16.068/2	30.928	4,22
Austria	12.732	3.689	10.246	26.667	3,64
Spain	13.180	1.697	9.388/2	19.571	2,67
Denmark	6.415	2.946	5.588	14.949	2,04
Norway	5.249	1.031	4.262	10.542	1,44
Luxembourg	2.544	432	2.463/2	4.208	0,57
Greece	2.531	164	1.208/2	3.299	0,45
Ireland	1.595	204	1.427	3.226	0,44
Portugal	1.399	142	1.304/2	2.198	0,30
Turkey	632	21 ?	545/2	926	0,12
	333.154	210.115	188.451	731.921
For non-examining countries, the number of "imported" applications has been reduced by half. BR/106 e/71 .c

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Comparison of the rates of contribution (percentages)

Contracting States	On the basis of the number of patent applications (Art. 42C (3), 1st variant)	Under the combined calculation method (Art. 42C (3), 2nd variant)	Under the PCT method
Federal Republic of Germany	19,64	21,37
United Kingdom	18,61	20,25
France	16,11	17,53
Italy	9,53	10,22
Switzerland	5,86	9,73
Netherlands	5,67	6,07
Sweden	5,43	4,83
Belgium	5,26	3,02
Austria	3,82	2,18
Spain	3,96	1,54
Denmark	1,92	1,54
Norway	1,58	0,75
Luxembourg	0,76	0,32
Ireland	0,48	0,19
Greece	0,76	0,24
Portugal	0,42	0,17
Turkey	0,19	0,05

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